Word: ulanova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner seemed destined to carry it awkwardly-like a steamer trunk with fancy labels. Last week, with barely two months as a Bolshoi soloist behind her, Bessmertnova was established in Moscow's excited ballet world as decidedly bessmertnova-even more so, said her teachers, than the immortal Ulanova...
Such talk is perhaps a bit excessive. Bessmertnova has appeared in only one solo role-Giselle-and that only five times. But each time she dances she stirs up a storm of acclaim such as the staid old Bolshoi has not seen in years. Even Ulanova raves about her. Lithe, dark, and only 22, Bessmertnova seems the very ideal of ballet-the disembodied spirit choreographers dream of, the ethereal figure that explains the whole logic of the dance...
...graduates. In pre-Bolshevik days, the Kirov was St. Petersburg's Maryinsky company, fountainhead of Western ballet. In graceful profusion, it produced the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographer Fokine, the impresario Diaghilev. Its demanding, perfectionist teachers seeded the world's great troupes with their students: Galina Ulanova went on from St. Petersburg to her triumphs with Moscow's Bolshoi, and Choreographer George Balanchine used his Maryinsky training to reshape the entire U.S. ballet scene...
While the Kirov has no Ulanova, it boasts half a dozen ballerinas who can bring off such strenuous lead roles with supple ease. But conscious of its role as the defender of 19th century classical tradition, the company plays down its stars to emphasize its superb corps de ballet, whose girls rival the Rockettes in beauty as well as precision...
...length: as much dance drama as ballet (a British habit), it was studded with arid passages of exaggeratedly old-fashioned pantomime. Moreover, the fragmentary score by German Modernist Hans Werner Henze-sometimes lushly impressionistic, sometimes brassily strident-added little to the wispy plot. As Romeo and Juliet does with Ulanova, Ondine moves only with Fonteyn...